As others have pointed out, this is more specific to the Humanities. I had a Classics professor who probably averaged 150 page reading assignments per lecture -

As others have pointed out, this is more specific to the Humanities. I had a Classics professor who probably averaged 150 page reading assignments per lecture -- of non-trivial authors like Thucydides, Aristotle, or Livy -- with many assignments going north of 200 pages. As a junior and senior Classics major, I probably read 1000 pages a week on average between all of my classes, plus maybe another 30 pages of reading in Latin and/or Greek, which obviously took a lot longer to get through, lol. Computer Science coursework always felt like a welcome relief from the time spent in front of the printed page: a lot of programming lab and project time, but only about 50 pages of reading per week, if even that much.